Digital Art

Channel #1

There was a time, back when TV was the only domestic provider of moving images on a screen.

Viewers were regularly hypnotised by short bursts of graphic animations and ear worm sonics, indicating which broadcaster was claiming the screen for themselves – Tyne Tees Television, Anglia, LWT, Harlech Television and all the rest.

Chemical X and the Hartnoll brothers, Paul & Phil – who make up the seminal electronic dance music duo Orbital – grew up in this environment which inspired Paul to create a ‘Channel #1’ indent that took the Orbital electronic soundscape that purposely continued just a little longer than was comfortable. Chemical X knew just how to visualise the vintage graphics and animation required to do justice to Orbital’s bespoke soundscape.